Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, aloo chop or potato croquettes. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Aloo Chop or Potato Croquettes is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Aloo Chop or Potato Croquettes is something which I have loved my whole life.
Aloo Chop (potato Croquettes) Aloo chop is a bengali telebhaja ( snack) recipe. Bengalis have a culture of having telebhaja ( fried snacks) and moori ( puffed rice) in the evening along with their family and friends. Growing up, aloo chops or potato croquettes were always on our teatime table - a quintessential Bangladeshi nasta, or snack item.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have aloo chop or potato croquettes using 21 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Aloo Chop or Potato Croquettes:
- Take 3 potatoes boiled and mashed
- Take 1 onion chopped finely
- Make ready 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- Get 1 tsp roasted cumin powder
- Get 1/2 tsp red chilli powder
- Prepare 1/2 tsp garam masala
- Prepare 1 tsp ginger paste or grated
- Get 1 tbsp chopped coriander
- Prepare To taste salt
- Prepare 1/4 tsp sugar
- Prepare 2 dry red chillies fried
- Take For batter:
- Take 1/2 cup besan (gramflour)
- Prepare 1 tbsp rice flour
- Make ready 1/2 tsp turmeric
- Prepare 1/4th tsp red chilli powder
- Take 1/2 tsp ajwain
- Make ready 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 1 pinch baking soda
- Make ready 1 tbsp hot oil
- Get 1 cup oil for frying
Heat oil in a frying pan. Fry the potato ballls from all sides until crisp and golden. Potato croquettes are fried potato rolls, coated in breadcrumbs, crispy from outside and soft from inside. In Indian potato croquettes are called aloo chop or potato chop.
Instructions to make Aloo Chop or Potato Croquettes:
- Peel and cut potatoes into cubes.Boil or pressure cook them till soft but not mushy.Strain out excess water and mash while it's still hot.Heat 2 tbsp oil and fry dry red chillies and crush them.Sprinkle cumin seeds.When they crackle,add grated ginger and chopped onion and fry till light brown.Mix red chilli powder,chopped green chillies,chopped coriander and roasted cumin seed powder and mash well.Add this mashed potato to the frying onion and toss all till well fried.Set aside to cool.
- Divide the potato mix into equal patties and flatten.Make a batter of gramflour or besan.Add salt to taste.Then add rice flour,red chilli powder,turmeric,baking powder,a pinch of baking soda,ajwain,hot oil and mix.
- Add water to make a thick batter and beat well so that no lumps are there in it.Heat oil in a pan.Dip the chops in the batter and fry on medium heat till nice and crispy golden brown.Serve famous street food of Kolkata Aloo Chop with Muri and green chilli.
These potato croquettes are actually very easy to make. You can use your leftover boil potatoes to make it. You can also add meat, vegetables, cheese or anything of your choice. Aloo Tikki or Potato Croquettes are also known in India as Aloor Chop, a typical Indian snack which is prepared with potatoes. It is a potato croquette full of spicy flavour.
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